Page 88 - double revenge 3.

MI5 HEADQUARTERS
THAMES HOUSE

MILLBANK
TH
THURSDAY MARCH 19 1998

‘Gentlemen. Targets 889m and 890f. Their recent photographic record and a summary of their files
are before you and I remind you nothing is to be removed from this room.

There has been activity of late. On the thirtieth of January, 890F, Svetlana Aliyeva, passed on a
directive to her contact 889M. Malcolm, would you bring us up to speed please.’

Malcolm Hinde was the senior of the four technical and surveillance operations department
executives gathered in the Deputy Director General’s office, the rest of the group were eight senior
operatives.

‘Yes sir. One month after passing on the directive, Svetlana Aliyeva walked out of the Richmond
Library on a Friday afternoon and vanished. I can confirm she is not on sick leave or on vacation.

We have checked ports and airports but there is no sign of her departure. My first presumption was
she is in the Russian Embassy or she had been shipped back to Moscow.

However, we have been informed by MI6 that her parents have also disappeared.

They lived in a fifth floor flat in Tsvetnoy Boulevard, a comfortable flat provided by Svetlana’s
employers, the Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye, the Main Intelligence Directorate.

The Tsvetnoy Boulevard apartments are under constant surveillance by the GRU, they like to keep

an eye on their employees, so I think we can safely assume they have not been upgraded to a larger
apartment with a nice view over Gorky Park

I am of the opinion they have been smuggled out of Russia to join their daughter.’

‘Thank you Malcolm.’ The Deputy Director continued, ‘If that were so, the cost would be quite out

of the reach of a Library assistant.

We believe Svetlana has been double-crossing her Russian employers and we need to know the
who and the why. The where is irrelevant. She and her family will be ensconced in South America
with new passports and a lot of spending money. Trying to bring her back to face trial would be
expensive and unnecessary. We certainly have not paid her for her services and neither would MI6,
she has nothing to offer either of us and George Mcluskey’s office certainly would not have the
budget for that. Incidentally, the Cottage has never been informed of our concerns over Delgado

either by Vauxhall Cross or by me. We believe that since they have regular contact with him it is
better they continue their liaison as normal rather than cause alarm bells to start ringing.